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Vanity

«Vanity is my favourite sin.»
Author: Al Pacino | About: Sin, Vanity
«Vanity, like murder, will out»
Author: Hannah Cowley | About: Vanity
«The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.»
Author: Henri Bergson (Philosopher) | About: Vanity | Keywords: laughable
«The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.»
«The surest cure for vanity is loneliness»
Author: Thomas Wolfe | About: Solitude, Vanity | Keywords: surest, vanity
«The highest form of vanity is love of fame.»
«Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.»
«Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it»
«The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny»
«Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.»

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